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The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota Tuesday afternoon released a letter urging officials to take creative and thoughtful action in responding to the Coronavirus crisis to avoid exacerbating long-standing race-based and wealth-based inequalities in our state.

“This crisis has the potential to threaten civil liberties, the rule of law, and the Minnesota and United States Constitutions,” Executive Director John Gordon wrote. “This letter is an urgent plea for measures based on existing law to avoid constitutional injuries, to protect vulnerable populations, and to reduce the COVID-19 exposure of government officials, those in the care of our prisons and jails, and the entire state.”